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Title: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying
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http://thinkprogress.org
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/health/201 ... venting-women-from-testifying/
Published: Feb 16, 2012
Author: Igor Volsky
Post Date: 2012-02-16 15:42:35 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 38056
Comments: 90
This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women. Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.” And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.” Watch a compilation of the heated exchange: ky on Feb 16, 2012 at 10:52 am This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women. Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.” And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.” Watch a compilation of the heated exchange: A picture of the witness table: Issa also dismissed the Democrats’ woman witness as a “college student’ who does not “have the appropriate credentials” to testify before his committee.
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#4. To: Ferret Mike, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#0)
Killing babies is "preventative health care"? I don't think so! What could be more unhealthy than dead?
What could be more unhealthy than dead? The ferret is a pro abort pervert lover.
I guess that makes you an advocate of exposing babies to the elements. If the baby dies, well, hey - it was God's will; or at least someone else's fault.
No I am in favor of wrapping a baby in a warm blanket. You are for Obama who is for killing babies adults and foreigners. Why do you a person who is supposed to be good support evil people?
You might be in favor yet you would do nothing to provide the same to a baby in need. To do so would brand the parents as socialists.
I've wrapped plenty of babies in warm blankets. Your words have no basis in truth or fact. I think it is strange that you think wrapping a baby up in a warm blanket is considered socialist by anyone. Did anyone ever run over your head with a truck? Just curious.
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#5. To: hondo68 (#4)
Killing babies is "preventative health care"? I don't think so!
#8. To: A K A Stone (#5)
The ferret is a pro abort pervert lover.
#10. To: lucysmom (#8)
I guess that makes you an advocate of exposing babies to the elements. If the baby dies, well, hey - it was God's will; or at least someone else's fault.
#13. To: A K A Stone (#10)
No I am in favor of wrapping a baby in a warm blanket.
#14. To: mininggold (#13)
You might be in favor yet you would do nothing to provide the same to a baby in need. To do so would brand the parents as socialists.
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